Several months ago, we heard a completely bizarre rumor. Ruper Murdoch’s ex-wife Wendi Deng was allegedly “dating” Vladimir Putin. At the time, I mentioned the long-standing rumors that Deng has a reputation of choosing lovers and husbands for how much power, money and access they have. Reportedly, Rupert Murdoch divorced Wendi because he believed she was fooling around on him with Tony Blair. So, Putin was within the realm of possibility, perhaps. Well, now Wendi has a fascinating new interview in Vogue where she discusses her post-divorce dating life, how she’s not dating Putin and more. You can read the full piece here (it’s ridiculously ass-kissy, even by Vogue standards). Some highlights:

She hosts a lot of dinner parties for important people: “Put people together and things can happen.”

Clinton vs. Trump: “I’m careful. I’m Switzerland.”

She’s always worked: “I never really quit work. I don’t think I ever considered myself just a rich wife. When E-Trade first started, I was at home moving stocks around.”

She’s also a matchmaker: Recent success stories: Anne Wojcicki, the tech entrepreneur and ex-wife of Sergey Brin, and the baseball player Alex Rodriguez; Xin Li, the model turned Christie’s power broker, and the music mogul Lyor Cohen; Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.

She never brags about herself? “I love people. I’m so curious. Artists, entrepreneurs—I’m fascinated by their ideas.” Murdoch never boasts about herself (the closest she came with me was when she acknowledged being excellent at math), but she is eager to tell you who in her wide circle of friends has won an Oscar, gained a billion-dollar valuation, had a record sale at Sotheby’s, watched a daughter graduate from Princeton. Murdoch is heat-seeking. Success is her drug.

She meditates with “her old friend Deborra-Lee Furness (wife of the actor Hugh Jackman)”: “I could worry about what people say all day long, but it’s not a very productive way of using my energy. If you ask my friends, they’ll tell you that I don’t complain very much.”

She & Murdoch co-parent their daughters: “Rupert’s a very good father. Strict like me. We attend school conferences together. We both make sure they learn Chinese, do well in math. We make decisions together about how they use social media. We never want them to say, ‘Well, Mommy said this’ or ‘Daddy said that.’ ”

She won’t comment on the Tony Blair rumor: Friends say that a Vanity Fair article that cast Wendi as ruthlessly ambitious was crushing for her, and that its central allegation—that she had had an affair with former British prime minister Tony Blair—is untrue.

On Jerry Hall, Murdoch’s new wife: “I’ve met Jerry only briefly once, when she dropped off Grace. She seems very nice, and my girls like her. I always tell them to treat her kindly. She’s their father’s wife.”

The rumors about her romance with Putin: It was, if nothing else, a sort of wish fulfillment for those who over the years have cast Murdoch as a fearless hunter of big game. Untrue, alas. “I’ve never met Putin,” she says. “But wow, so much press about it. Why did they choose me?” Perhaps the press chose Murdoch out of a perverse sense of respect, a certainty that she could hold her own with the best (and the worst) of them. As it happens, Murdoch is single and happy to be fixed up. The gossip columns aren’t always wrong; it turns out that the handsome and much younger British violinist photographed next to her at the Giambattista Valli show in Paris in March was indeed a date. “Why not?” she asks. “Am I supposed to be shy?”

[From Vogue]

If you ever want to get dizzy from a full-blitz name-dropping and humble-brag session, I would definitely suggest you read the full Vogue piece. It feels like Wendi Deng is ONLY friends with celebrities, entrepreneurs, CEOs and artists. If you don’t have any money, you are not invited to her dinner parties. And I find it hard to believe that Vogue is trying to sell this “Wendi never brags about herself” narrative when all she does is feign humility a few times and then gets her famous friends to brag about how she’s the most amazing person in the world.

As for the rumors about Putin and Blair… I’ll believe that she’s never banged Putin. But I do think she and Blair were hittin’ it.

Photos courtesy of Norman Jean Roy/Vogue and WENN.